An angler yanks a fish out of the drink and it flops and flaps on the deck of a boat, pop-eyed, its gills wondering where the water went.
Minoru Saito, 73, is also a fish out of water, spending his time ashore flapping about, up to his gills in chores to make things ready for another solo-sailing feat. He has to give it a name, so this time it's, well, Challenge 8.
But first things first. Freshly back from New York, where he became the first Asian to be awarded one of the sailing world's highest and, at 84 years, longest-running honors, the Cruising Club of America's Blue Water Medal, Saito has shed his blazer and is back in jeans, grappling to get his scarred 15-meter sloop Shuten-dohji II (Drunkard's Child) set for a ride Down Under.